was the arab spring worth it, was the u.s. support of the uprisings across the region that have led to a great deal of chaos in u.s. interests and if so, why. i would ask him to defend that policy and i would ask both candidates to defend that policy. >> elizabeth, what about syria? you've been reporting on the military operations, we know that there are light weapons supposedly being supplied through our arab allies but what about all the reporting now and most recently in the "new york times" that weapons are getting into the wrong hands? >> well, yes, i would ask mitt romney how he planned to arm the rebels in syria. as you know, this administration, the obama administration, does not want to provide arms to the rebels. they feel that again, there's evidence as you cited, they would get into the wrong hands. i would ask mitt romney, again, the method for arming the rebels and whether he was concerned about bad outcomes for that and as defense secretary leon panetta said recently, we do not want to go in there as we did in i